OWASA: Water Is Safe Again
The Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant will return to normal operation as soon as it is safe to do so, OWASA officials said. Dining halls gave one free bottle of water to students staying on campus and portable toilets were delivered late Friday night.

Trump has suspended due process for Muslims
Two of the interpreters he employed were executed by Iraqi militia, he added. "The guy was fearless". All six were told they could not board EgyptAir Flight 985 to Kennedy Airport.

External Hard Drives Finally Supported for PS4
The software update is codenamed Sasuke and selected beta users will receive an email with instructions on how to get started. Instead of covering around two-thirds of your game, the quick menu will only cover half of the gameplay screen.

Peter Dutton calls Cory Bernardi's defection a 'betrayal'
Bernardi, who is indeed an outspoken supporter of Trump, has always been one of the Liberal Party's more conservative figures. He said that the party needed more people like Bernardi who are prepared to speak out and make a difference.

Malaysia manufacturing PMI highest in 20 months: Nikkei
The index for new export orders was 53.1, just below a preliminary 53.2 but still indicating the fastest gain in 12 months. A PMI measures changes in activity levels across China's manufacturing sector from one month to the next.

In a February 7 op-ed for Politico, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (shown) implies that he will obstruct confirmation of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch because, he says, it's his duty to do so. Why?

"He certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments made by President Trump about the judiciary", Blumenthal told reporters after meeting with Gorsuch Wednesday afternoon. Schumer, of NY, said last week he needed time to review Gorsuch's 10-year record before scheduling a meeting. For the first time in history this body refused to hold a hearing on a nominee for the Supreme Court, refused to give an up-or-down vote.

President Trump might be viewed as a wild card in the judicial selection process because his views sometimes diverge from Republican Party orthodoxy.

You got one thing right, "At the very least, Gorsuch is exceedingly qualified".

"I'm hopeful the Dems will not filibuster", said Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune of South Dakota. President Trump has nominated someone quite ideologically close to Scalia, making the Gorsuch confirmation a battle over whether the high court will be permitted to keep its former balance of liberals and conservatives.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin told The State Journal Register that he will support a hearing and a vote for Gorsuch on Jan 31. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that Democrats have reason to be upset about the failure of President Obama's nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, to be given a confirmation hearing previous year.

IAAF approves extension of Russian doping banThe ban had already been extended in March and then June 2016, preventing Russia's athletes from competing at the Rio Olympics. At the meeting, Lord Coe, the IAAF president, also said that all nationality switches by athletes would be frozen.

Pet snake gets stuck in woman's gauged earlobeWell this woman from Portland, Oregon has put you to shame, because she got a literal live fucking snake caught in her ear gauge. Most people don't expect their pets to send them to the emergency room, but that's exactly what happened to one OR woman.

SCOTUS is set to hear a case on mandatory arbitration clauses around April this year, and it is possible that Gorsuch could be confirmed by then.

Laxalt rolled out a petition on his personal website aimed at urging the Senate to confirm the Colorado federal appellate judge tapped by President Donald Trump "without delay". Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Rep. Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services, or Steve Mnuchin for Secretary of the Treasury.

Beyond the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the high court, President Trump might have the opportunity to make additional appointments to the Court.

Senate Democrats are planning to ask Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch about volunteer work he claimed he did while he was a Harvard Law School student, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"We don't have so-called senators".

The rancor embroiling the court is an expression of broad-based polarization in American political culture. Like Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices require the "advice and consent" of the Senate, but it has become less consenting and more adversarial.